Will MacIntel Kill Apple Open Source Efforts?

An anonymous reader writes in to say that "Rob Braun (OpenDarwin core developer claims Apple's open source efforts are now dead, because Apple is afraid of assisting OSx86 piracy. First, Apple withheld the source of cctools required to to build Darwin. Now it seems they are no longer releasing the source to OS X's xnu kernel. "

Comments

We need a "much ado about nothing" tag

[C. E. Sum]

Which would fit perfectly in this story.

A minor problem is blown out of all proprortion, and it's the end of open source on OSX-x86?

Re:This is surprising how?

[Zemplar]

[throws gas on the fire]

This is because Apple is moving from Darwin to Solaris 10 x86 as its GUI code base!





Okay, okay, not stop spreading nasty rumors and get back to work!

Explanation from the Article

[Orrin Bloquy]

"...unnamed executives at Apple admitted that the sourcecode to Xnu had to be pulled after threats from the Church of Scientology."

Re:Does anything ever kill anything?

[blibbler]

Well, video killed the radio star.

cnn:pirates raid cruiseliner, demand copy software

[GodWasAnAlien]

I saw this on CNN recently.

Pirates attacked a cruiseliner with machine guns today, killing several people, and demanding that passengers allow them to copy Windows(tm) and OSX(tm) from their laptops. It was tragic story, and should serve as reminder to the rest that DRM and copy protection are nessesary to fight against pirates.

Adding DRM is not about limiting competition and increasing profits. It's about saving lives.

Re:cnn:pirates raid cruiseliner, demand copy softw

[cooley]

Mod parent UP! I was there and it was awful.

I had signed up for one of those new geeko-tourism packages. We had spent the last several days attached to a port, so we were excited to be nearing the CVS surrounding the galapagos, where we hoped to catch a glimpse of Darwin, or maybe a GNU.

Unfortunately our ship was soon compromised by these pirates who swooped in via the Cat5 cable. Their Captain, known as Bluetooth, just seemed to float right across to our ship, through the air; it was scary.

Anyway, they must not have known we were a civilian ship, because they kept asking to see the Colonal. I noticed that one of them had a USB key for a hand. They also tore every page out of the ship's log before they left....